Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.